Looking over the site linked by Imperial Marshall, I have to say as a general observation, comics in college newspapers have gotten pretty raunchy. In that sense, the author did have a good point in that his crap was no worse than the other crap on that comics page, which no one made a big deal about.

Here in Fort St. John, there's a small weekly paper that goes around called 'Coffee Talk', four pages of jokes, a crossword puzzle and a 'brain teaser' puzzle. It frequently carries racist jokes... 'dumb blonde' jokes and 'redneck' jokes. Yup, seems there's exactly one race that it's considered politically correct to make jokes about...